From the Eisner Award winning creative team of writer Matt Fraction and artist Salvador Larroca-- along with special guest-artists Kano, Nathan Fox and Carmine Di Giandiomenico-- the Armored Avenger's past, present and future come together for a mind-bending tale that brings together three generations of Starks! Is Tony Stark the man responsible for the dystopian world of tomorrow? Is his son really the relentless mass murderer known as War Machine? What awful fate awaits his freedom-fighting granddaughter as she slips into the clutches of the Emperor of the Earth, the vaunted Grand Khan...the Lord Mandarin?!

The answers lie inside the mind of the Tony of today and it'll take the matched wits of both Iron Man and the Amazing Spider-Man to extract them! Prepare for a pulse-pounding paradigm shift as "The New Iron Age" blasts open a new chapter in the history of a Marvel icon this January, only in Invincible Iron Man #500!

"Dude, I bow down to you, you are the worlds greatest ballbuster." -Jude Terror"Sorry, nate! I think you automatically lose all arguments from now on, simply due to the fact that the only person willing to back you up is batshit insane!" - Dragavon"Everything I know I learned from reading your posts." - Nietoperz

"It is often forgotten that (dictionaries) are artificial repositories, put together well after the languages they define. The roots of language are irrational and of a magical nature." - Jorge Luis Borges, Prologue to "El otro, el mismo."

"Corruptus In Extremis"

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." Jorge Luis Borges